page_title: Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II
hierarchical_section_title: Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: a magyar-szovjet határ 1940-ben.Hungarian-Soviet border in 1940 Location: Ukraine, Uzhok Tags: border crossing, tow truck, Transcarpathia, track Title: a magyar-szovjet határ 1940-ben.
context_page_description: Carpathian Ruthenia was a region in the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia that became autonomous within that country in September 1938, declared its independence as the "Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine” in March 1939, was immediately occupied and annexed by Hungary, invaded by the Soviet Red Army in 1944 and incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1946. In total between 1939 and 1944 80,000 Carpathian Ukrainians perished.
context_section_description: Carpathian Ruthenia  was a region in the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathian Ruthenia, or Transcarpathia) that became autonomous within that country in September 1938, declared its independence as the "Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine” in March 1939, was immediately occupied and annexed by Hungary, invaded by the Soviet Red Army in 1944 and incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1946. In total between 1939 and 1944 80,000 Carpathian Ukrainians perished.
caption: Hungarian-Soviet border at Uzhok pass, 1940
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